Search in folklore: laughed

It's better to flee danger and be laughed at than to face danger and be mourned.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

What was done at night, is laughed about during the day.

A day is lost if one has not laughed.

That day is lost on which one has not laughed.

He's more to be pitied than laughed at.

One never wept but another laughed.

To be laughed at is not to be pitied.

To be laughed at by men is not to be wept by hyenas.

What is viler than to be laughed at?

If you tell the truth too early, you are laughed at -- too late and you are stoned.

The loser is always laughed at.

He who made fun of the old man, laughed at first and cried afterwards.

When Allah made Sudan, he laughed.

Jingle bells

Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
Through the fields we go
Laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight.

Chorus:...

The Night Before Christmas

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack....

The bush fowl saw the chicken being carved up and laughed. The chicken told the bush fowl to stop laughing. For the same hands now carving up the chicken would be used to carve up the bush fowl.